@article{PistorColucci2022, author = {Pistor, Petra and Colucci, Elizabeth}, title = {Policy Framework - Towards a Harmonised African Continental Higher Education Area}, series = {HAQAA Training Courses for IQA - Training Material}, volume = {Module 1}, journal = {HAQAA Training Courses for IQA - Training Material}, publisher = {HAQAA2}, doi = {10.25974/fhms-15184}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:836-opus-151846}, pages = {1 -- 9}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The PAQAF - the Pan-African Quality Assurance and Accreditation Framework - is an overarching framework for several action lines and instruments related to the convergence of the African Higher Education sector, and more specifically quality assurance and accreditation. It was adopted by the Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on Education, Science and Technology of the African Union Assembly in 2016. The implementation of some of the PAQAF's action lines and the development of some of its instruments has been supported by the HAQAA initiative from 2015 to 2018 and is currently continued in the context of HAAQA2. Module 1 gives an overview of the PAQAF's deveopment and action lines.}, language = {en} }